MAXWELL AFB, Alabama, May 20 -- The U.S. Air Force's 42nd Air Base Wing issued the following news: Air Force students recently crossed a digital threshold by logging in to a new, custom Squadron Officer School portal made possible by an innovative collaboration. Air University partnered with Arizona State University, one of America's leading public research universities with advanced learning and support systems, to transform the distance learning experience for Air Force officers and civilian  more

MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Alabama, May 20 -- Air University issued the following news: Air Force students recently crossed a digital threshold by logging in to a new, custom Squadron Officer School portal made possible by an innovative collaboration. Air University partnered with Arizona State University, one of America's leading public research universities with advanced learning and support systems, to transform the distance learning experience for Air Force officers and civilians worldwide.   more

WASHINGTON, May 15 -- The U.S. Census Bureau issued the following tip sheet: The U.S. Census Bureau, in coordination with federal, state and local health officials, will begin a phased restart of some 2020 Census field operations in 11 additional states and Puerto Rico the week of May 18. The places that will begin a phased restart of operations are: - Arizona - Colorado - Indiana - Iowa - Louisiana - Nebraska - Nevada - New Mexico - New York (Rochester) - Puerto Rico - Rhode Islan  more

OAKLAND, California, May 19 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has authorized the use of federal funds to assist the State of Arizona in combating the East Desert Fire burning in Maricopa County. On May 18, 2020, the State of Arizona submitted a request for a Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) for the East Desert Fire. At the time of the request, the fire threat  more

SOMERTON, Arizona, May 22 -- The U.S. Department of Labor issued the following news release: An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) has led the Somerton School District to pay $1,000 in back wages to an employee who needed to spend five weeks at home caring for her children whose school closed due to the coronavirus. Managers at the Somerton School District #11 stated that while they were unfamiliar with the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act provisions of t  more

WASHINGTON, May 23 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news release on May 22: The video can be viewed at: https://www.lbl.gov/ The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), installed on an Arizona mountaintop, was quickly moving through its testing stages and making headway toward the start of its 5-year observing run as project participants from around the world traveled to attend a DESI collaboration meeting in Tucson, Arizona, in  more

LUKE AFB, Arizona, May 21 -- The U.S. Air Force's 56th Fighter Wing issued the following news: Aerospace ground equipment personnel perform a variety of tasks to help keep the world's greatest Air Force jets in flight. The F-35A Lightning II AGE section manages more than 700 pieces of equipment -- performing basic maintenance, service inspections and delivering the equipment where it's needed. Performing maintenance on a unit can take anywhere from 15 minutes to two days, depending on the l  more